The PRIMER Emerging Designer Exhibition celebrates the diversity and excellence of the speculative design practice, and aims to recognize emerging designers without borders. The award is open to speculative design, design fiction, and futuristic design projects from all disciplines.

Nominated projects will be exhibited during the PRIMER19 conference and showcased to the global design, strategy & futurist community on June 13-15, 2019, at the Parsons New School, NYC. Every nomination of the Emerging Designer Exhibition will receive a code to purchase a discounted PRIMER19 ticket for $50 (the regular student ticket is $100).

The top three projects will be voted by the conference attendees. The winners will receive a cash prize of $150 for 1st prize, $100 for 2nd prize, $50 for 3rd prize and highlighted via PRIMER's social media, web, and digital communications. In addition to a discounted ticket for PRIMER19, each winner will receive a FREE general admission ticket for next year’s PRIMER2020 conference.

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Theme

This year our theme is “Futures for all”. In order to manifest futures for everyone, we need diverse perspectives and platforms that elevate more voices in discussions around where we are heading. We often fail to question who the future is created for, how it is made accessible, whose interests are promoted, and how power and agency are redistributed in its envisioning. However, these questions are hard to ask when technology is only imagined and designed by a small group of people working within the industry.